Man, that hurts...

I was cleaning my inbox today and I found an old email thread I exchanged exactly one year ago with a friend of mine who's a Bulls fan.

Talking about which team would grab the 8th spot, how our teams sucked but how they would rock more than each other's in the future. Basic fan conversation enhanced by the fact that they were engaged in a playoff race against each other.

Now what ? In just a year, they have a very legit shot at the best league record and we have a very legit shot at the #1 pick.

This is obviously no news, and we all know rebuilding around youth is the good strategy, but reading this thread reaaaaaaally killed my day.

I was cleaning my inbox today and I found an old email thread I exchanged exactly one year ago with a friend of mine who's a Bulls fan.

Talking about which team would grab the 8th spot, how our teams sucked but how they would rock more than each other's in the future. Basic fan conversation enhanced by the fact that they were engaged in a playoff race against each other.

Now what ? In just a year, they have a very legit shot at the best league record and we have a very legit shot at the #1 pick.

This is obviously no news, and we all know rebuilding around youth is the good strategy, but reading this thread reaaaaaaally killed my day.

Just wanted to share it.

I would see this as positive man. We were stuck in mediocrity, which is hard to get out of.

We tanked this year, hopefully pickup Kemba or Kyrie in the draft (a la CGO and D Rose), and start the re-up. We NEED a new coach cut from the same cloth as Thibs. He did ALOT for the bulls this year.

We NEED a new coach cut from the same cloth as Thibs. He did ALOT for the bulls this year.

Well to be honest, even if I would never have admitted this in our email exchange cause it'd have killed the whole "you suck, i rule" concept which our conversation was based on, we both knew that the only fix they had to make to become a good team was getting rid of VDN. Signing Boozer turned good into great and saved them a couple of years.

They actually did much more for their bench depth as well...Brewer, Korver, Asik (who was probably there already I believe). Thats a good organization as well with the owner who is in the professional sports business and doesnt meddle much.

They actually did much more for their bench depth as well...Brewer, Korver, Asik (who was probably there already I believe). Thats a good organization as well with the owner who is in the professional sports business and doesnt meddle much.

basically an owner that knows what it takes to build a winning team and not just sell tickets.

Hopefully once the teachers pension sells their shares in MLSE, we too may have an owner like that.

Maybe I'm wrong on this one, but isn't Reinsdorf generally regarded as a cheap-skate owner that milks the Bulls and pours the money into the white sox? Don't Bulls fans generally dislike the man for not shelling out during the Jordan years and beyond?